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Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarsky kray; not to be confused with Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District....
) is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia is a federation which consists of 83 subjects. These subjects are of equal federal rights in the sense that they have equal representation?two delegates each?in the Federation Council of Russia ....
of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(a krai

Krai

Krai or kray is a term used to refer to nine of Russia's federal subjects of Russia. The term is often translated as territory, province, country or region....
). It is the second largest Russian region after the Sakha Republic

Sakha Republic

The Sakha Republic is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . At half the size of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the list of the largest country subdivisions by area in the world at 3,100,000 km? with a population of less than one million....
, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory (about the size of Algeria). The administrative center of the krai is the city of Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
.

krai lies in the middle of Siberia

Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, and belongs to Siberian Federal District

Siberian Federal District

Siberian Federal District is one of the seven federal districts of Russia of Russia. It is the central of the three Asian districts. Its population was 20,062,938 in the 2002 census, living on an area of 5,114,800 km? ....
, stretching 3,000 km from Sayan Mountains

Sayan Mountains

The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range in southern Siberia, Russia.The Eastern Sayan extends 1000 km from the Yenisey River at 92? E to the southwest end of Lake Baikal at 106? E....
on the south along the Yenisei river to Taymyr Peninsula

Taymyr Peninsula

Taymyr Peninsula is a peninsula in Siberia that forms the most northern part of mainland Asia. It lies between the Yenisei Gulf of the Kara Sea and the Khatanga Gulf of the Laptev Sea in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia....
in the north.

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Krasnoyarsk Krai (Krasnoyarsky kray; not to be confused with Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai

Krasnodar Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in the Southern Federal District....
) is a federal subject

Federal subjects of Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
(a krai

Krai

Sakha Republic

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
.

Geography

The krai lies in the middle of Siberia

Siberia

Siberian Federal District

Sayan Mountains

Taymyr Peninsula

Tyumen Oblast

Tyumen Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia of Tyumen. It has administrative jurisdiction over two autonomous okrugs, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
, Tomsk

Tomsk Oblast

File:Tomsk weisses Haus.jpgTomsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District....
, Irkutsk

Irkutsk Oblast

Irkutsk Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , located in south-eastern Siberia in the basins of Angara River, Lena River, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers....
, and Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast , often called Kuzbass after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , is located in southwestern Siberia, where the West-Siberian Plain meets the South Siberian mountains....
s, the Khakass

Khakassia

Tuva

Tyva Republic , or Tuva , is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia ....
, and Sakha Republic

Sakha Republic

Kara Sea

The Kara Sea is part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya....
and Laptev Sea

Laptev Sea

The Laptev Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is located between the eastern coast of Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands....
of the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
on the north.

The krai is located in the basin of the Arctic Ocean

Arctic Ocean

The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic North Pole region, is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions....
. The main rivers of the krai are the Yenisei, and its tributaries (from South to North): the Kan

Kan River

The Kan river is a 629 km long tributary to the Yenisei River in Siberia, Russia. It drains a basin of 36,900 km?.The headwaters of the river rise in the Sayan Mountains and flow from there in a northerly direction through Kansk and then in a westerly direction through Zelenogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, entering Yenisei at Ust-Kan ....
, the Angara

Angara

The Angara River is a 1779 km long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia. It is the only river flowing out of Lake Baikal, and is a headwater of the Yenisei River....
, the Podkamennaya Tunguska

Stony Tunguska

The Podkamennaya Tunguska is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia; it is a right tributary of the Yenisei River and has a length of 1865 km. The name of the river comes from the fact that it flows under pebble fields without open water....
, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska

Lower Tunguska

The Nizhnyaya Tunguska is a river in Siberia, Russia. It has a length of 2,989 km and is a right tributary of the Yenisei. It flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai....
. Some rivers of Taymyr Peninsula

Taymyr Peninsula

Khatanga

Khatanga is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in the Taymyr Peninsula, in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Khatanga River, south of the Arctic Ocean....
, the Taymyr

Taymyr River

The Taymyr River is a roughly 400 mi long river in the middle of the Taymyr Peninsula in the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative region of the Russian Federation....
) run directly into the Arctic Ocean.

The climate is strongly continental with big variations of temperature during one year. For the central and southern regions where most of the krai's population lives long winters and short, hot summers are characteristic. The territory of Krasnoyarsk krai experiences conditions of three climate belts: Arctic, Sub-Arctic, and moderate. While on the north there are less than 40 days with temperature higher than 10 °C (50 °F), on the south there are about 110–120 such days.

The average temperature of January is in the north and in the south. The average temperature of July is in the north and in the south. The annual precipitation is (up to in foothills of Sayan Mountains). Snow covers the central regions of the krai since early November till late March. The mountains of Sayans that higher than 2,400–2,600 m and ones of Putorana Plateau that are higher than 1,000–1,300 m are covered with snow permanently. Permafrost is widespread, especially in the north.

The highest point of the krai is Grandiozny Peak in East Sayan Mountains that rises up to .

Time zone

Krasnoyarsk Krai is located in the Krasnoyarsk Time Zone

Krasnoyarsk Time

Krasnoyarsk Time is the time zone 7 hours ahead of UTC and 4 hours ahead of Moscow Time . Krasnoyarsk Summer Time is UTC+8, but remains constant as regards Moscow Time ....
(KRAT/KRAST). UTC

Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time is a time standard based on International Atomic Time with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation....
offset is +0700 (KRAT)/+0800 (KRAST).

History

According to archeologists the territory of Siberia was settled about 200,000 years ago. The grave-mounds and monuments of the Scythian culture in Krasnoyarsk Kray belong to the 7th century BCE and are ones of the oldest in Eurasia

Eurasia

Eurasia is a large landmass covering about 53,990,000 km? or about 10.6% of the Earth's surface . Often considered a single continent, Eurasia comprises the traditional continents of Europe and Asia, concepts which date back to classical antiquity and the borders for which are somewhat arbitrary....
. Among other things a prince's grave Kurgan Arshan exposed in 2001 is known.

The Russian settlement of the area (by Cossacks mostly) began in the 17th century. After the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad the Russian colonisation of the area strongly increased.

During both the Tsar

Tsar

Tsar or czar , occasionally spelled csar or tzar in English language, is a slavs term designating certain monarchs.Originally, the title Czar meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who has the same rank as a Ancient Rome or Byzantine emperor due to recognition by another emperor or...
ist and the Bolsheviks' regimes the territory of Krasnoyarsk Krai was used as a place of exile of political enemies of current government. The first leaders of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and also known by the pseudonyms V.I. Lenin and N. Lenin, was a Russians revolutionary, a Bolshevik Communism politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the USSR....
and Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
were in exile on the territory of the nowadays krai in 1897–1900 and in 1903 respectively. In Stalin's era numerous Gulag

Gulag

The Gulag was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union. Gulag is the Russian acronym for The Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies of the NKVD....
camps were in the region.

In 1822, the Yenisei Governorate (Yeniseyskaya guberniya) was created with Krasnoyarsk as its administrative centre that covered the territory very close to the one of the current krai.

On June 30, 1908, in the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska river, there occurred a powerful explosion

Tunguska event

The Tunguska Event, or Tunguska explosion, was a powerful explosion that occurred near the Stony Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, at around 7:14 a.m....
most likely to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid

Meteoroid

A meteoroid is a small sand to boulder sized particle of debris in the Solar System. The visible path of a meteoroid that enters Earth Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor, or commonly a "shooting star" or "falling star"....
or comet

Comet

A comet is a Small Solar System body that orbits the Sun and, when close enough to the Sun, exhibits a visible coma or a tail?both primarily from the effects of solar radiation upon the Comet nucleus....
fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 miles) above Earth's surface. The force of the explosion is estimated to be about 10–15 megatons. It flattened more than 2,000 square kilometres (500,000 acres) of pine forest and killed thousands of reindeer.

Kransnoyark Krai was created in 1934 after disaggregation of West Siberian

West Siberian Krai

West Siberian Krai was an early krai of Russian SFSR. By the 1937 All-Union Census, it had population of 6,433,527.References...
and East Siberian Krais and then included Taymyr

Taymyr Autonomous Okrug

Taymyr Autonomous Okrug , or Taymyria, was a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , the northernmost in mainland Russia . It is named after the Taymyr Peninsula....
and Evenk Autonomous Okrug

Evenk Autonomous Okrug

Evenkiysky District is an administrative-territorial entity with special status?a district within Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Before January 1, 2007, it was the only district of Evenk Autonomous Okrug , or Evenkia?a federal subjects of Russia of Russia, which, as of 2006, at 767,600 km?, was Russia's seventh largest and l...
s and Khakasiya Autonomous Oblast

Khakasiya Autonomous Oblast

Khakas Autonomous Oblast was part of the 1934 created Krasnoyarsk Krai. Later it became Republic of Khakassia....
. In 1991, Khakassia

Khakassia

Republic of Khakassia or Khakasiya is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia located in south central Siberia.Abakan is the administrative centre of Khakassia, and with a population of around 160,000 making it the largest city....
separated from the krai and became a republic within the Russian Federation.

On January 1, 2007, following a referendum on the issue held on April 17, 2005, territories of Evenk

Evenk Autonomous Okrug

Taymyr Autonomous Okrug

Taymyr Autonomous Okrug , or Taymyria, was a federal subjects of Russia of Russia , the northernmost in mainland Russia . It is named after the Taymyr Peninsula....
s were merged into the krai.

Politics

In 1993, president Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Yeltsin came to power with a wave of high expectations....
appointed Valery Zubov the first governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai. In 1994, Zubov was elected in a universal election for a four-year term. The Legislative Assembly of Krasnoyarsk Krai was created as well.

In 1998, Zubov lost in the gubernatorial election to General Aleksandr Lebed, a politician well-known in all Russia. The term of governor's service was extended up to five years. But in 2002 Lebed died in a helicopter accident.

In 2002, Alexander Khloponin

Alexander Khloponin

Alexander Gennadyevich Khloponin was born on March 6, 1965 in Colombo, Ceylon . Khloponin is the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia, Russia....
, the governor of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug and an influential businessman was elected new governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai. In 2007, he was nominated by president Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the second President of Russia and is the current Prime Minister of Russia as well as chairman of United Russia and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Union of Russia and Belarus....
for re-election, and Khloponin was elected by the legislative assembly for the second term.

The legislative assembly consists of 52 deputies. 22 of them are elected in 22 one-mandate electoral districts by plurality system, 2 in Taymyr, 2 in Evenkia, and 26 are elected by proportional system from the lists offered by political parties.

Krasnoyarsk Krai is represented in the Federation Council of Russia

Federation Council of Russia

Federation Council of Russia is the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia , according to the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation....
by two senators. In 2007, eight deputies were elected to Duma

Duma

A Duma is any of various representative assemblies in modern Russia and Russian history. The State Duma in the Russian Empire and Russian Federation corresponds to the lower house of the parliament....
from Krasnoyarsk regional lists of different political parties.

Economics

Over 95% of the cities, a majority of the industrial enterprises, and all of the agriculture are concentrated in the south of the krai.

Natural resources

The krai is among the richest of Russia's regions in natural resources. Eighty percent of the country's nickel

Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element, with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge....
, 75% of its cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, grey metal, a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Although cobalt-based colors and pigments have been used since ancient times, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals, cobalt was only discovered in 1735 by Georg Brandt....
, 70% of its copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29.It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity....
, 16% of its coal

Coal

Coal is a readily combustion black or brownish-black sedimentary rock. The harder forms, such as anthracite, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure....
, and 10% of its gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
are extracted here. Krasnoyarsk also produces 20% of the country's timber

Timber

Timber may refer to:* Lumber, i.e. wood materials* Timber, Oregon, an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Oregon* Timber , a 1984 arcade game by Bally Midway...
. More than 95% of Russian resources of platinum

Platinum

Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is in Group 10 of the periodic table of elements....
and platinoids are concentrated in the krai.

Industry

The krai's major industries are: non-ferrous metallurgy

Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic Chemical element, their intermetallics, and their mixtures, which are called alloys....
, energy, forestry, chemicals, and oil refining. The major financial industrial groups of Krasnoyarsk Krai are:

Basic Element (Krasnoyarsk Aluminium Plant, Achinsk Alumina Complex, Krasnoyarsk Pulp and Paper Plant)
Interros
Interros

Interros is a Russian conglomerate with large stakes in mining, metals, energy, finance, retail, real estate and other sectors. The primary owner is Vladimir Potanin, with Mikhail Prokhorov having departed in 2007 ....
, (Norilsk Nickel)
Evraz Group
Evraz Group

Evraz Group is one of the world's biggest Vertical integration steel production and mining businesses, with operations mainly in Russia. In 2006, Evraz Group produced 16.1 million tonnes of crude steel....
(iron mines, timber)
MDM Group (SUEK, Siberian Coal and Energy Company)
Unified Energy System
Unified Energy System

The Unified Energy System was an electric power holding company in Russia. It owned about 70% of Russia's installed electric capacity, 96% of high-voltage grid and over 70% of transmission lines....
(generation and transit of electric power)
RZhD (railroads)

Power generation

The two most powerful hydroelectric plants in Russia are built on the Yenisei River, one is being built on the Angara, and several are being planned. It makes Krasnoyarsk Krai one of the most important producers of electric energy in Russia, and a desirable location for energy-intensive industries, such as aluminium plants.

Transportation

Trans-Siberian Railroad (650 km (400 mi) within Krasnoyarsk Krai), Norilsk Railroad (the most northern railroad in the world); North Siberian Railroad is planned.
Highways: M53 Baikal (Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk is Russia's third-largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast....
-Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
-Irkutsk
Irkutsk

Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
) and M54 Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
-Kyzyl
Kyzyl

Kyzyl is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, and is the capital of the Tuva, Russia. The name of the city means "red" in Tuvan . Population: 105,931 ; 104,105 ....
-Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
).
Northern Sea Route
Northern Sea Route

The Northern Sea Route is a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Russian coasts of the Russian Far East and Siberia....
and shipping on Yenisei. The main ports are: Dudinka
Dudinka

Dudinka is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was the administrative center of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, which was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007....
, Igarka
Igarka

Igarka is an types of settlements in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located 163 km north of the Arctic Circle. It is also a port on the Yenisey River, situated 673 km away from the river's mouth....
, Turukhansk
Turukhansk

Turukhansk is a types of settlements in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located 1,474 km north of Krasnoyarsk, at the confluence of the Yenisei River and Lower Tunguska rivers....
, Yeniseysk
Yeniseysk

Yeniseysk, also Eniseisk and other variants , is a types of settlements in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River....
, Maklakovo, Strelka, Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
26 airports, including large international one (Yemelyanovo near Krasnoyarsk).
Two pipes of Irkutsk
Irkutsk

Irkutsk is one of the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia and the administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, situated by rail from Moscow....
-Anzhero-Sudzhensk
Anzhero-Sudzhensk

Anzhero-Sudzhensk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in the Kuznetsk Basin in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. The town, which was formed out of the amalgamation of the Anzherka and Sudzhenka settlements, is located to the north of the oblast's administrative center Kemerovo and to the east of the Tom River....
petroleum pipeline.
Major power transmission lines.

Administrative divisions

Krasnoyarsk Krai consists of 44 raion

Raion

A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....
s, and 14 cities of raion-level. Two of the raions (Evenkia, and Taymyr, the former autonomous okrugs) have special status.

Demographics

Population (2002 Census

Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
): 3,023,525 (including Taymyr and Evenk Autonomous Okrugs)

Ethnic groups: The population of the krai mostly consists of Russians

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavs ethnic group, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries.The English language term Russians is used to refer to the citizens of Russia, regardless of their ethnicity ; in Russian language, the demonym Russian is translated as Rossiyanin ....
, and some other peoples of the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
. The indigenous Siberian peoples make up no more than 1% of the population.

The 2002 Census reported the national composition as • Russian

Russians

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavs ethnic group primarily living in Ukraine, or more broadly?citizens of Ukraine . Some 200 years ago and times prior to that, Ukrainians were usually referred to and known as Rusyny ....
2.37% • Tatar

Tatars

Tatars , sometimes spelled Tartars, refers to a Turkic people ethnic group mainly inhabiting Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, and Poland....
1.49% • German 1.24% • Azeri

Azeris in Russia

Aside from the large Azeri community native to Russia's Dagestan Republic, the majority of Azeris in Russia are fairly recent immigrants. Azeris started settling in Russia around the late 19th century, but their migration became intensive after World War II....
0.65% • Belarusians

Belarusians

Belarusians or Belorussians are an East Slavs ethnic group who populate the majority of the Belarus and form minorities in neighboring Poland , Russia, Lithuania and Ukraine....
0.61% • Chuvash

Chuvash people

The Chuvash are a Turkic languages-speaking people. According to the Russian census of 2002, the Chuvash population in Russia numbered 1 637 200; 889 268 of these lived in Chuvashia....
0.57% • Dolgan

Dolgans

Dolgans are a Turkic languages-speaking people, who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. The Russian Census counted 7,261 Dolgans. This number includes 5,517 in former Taymyr Autonomous Okrug....
0.38% • Armenian

Armenians

The Armenians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands. A large concentration of them has remained there, especially in Armenia, but many of them are also scattered elsewhere throughout the world ....
0.36% • Evenk

Evenks

The Evenks or Evenki are a Tungusic people of Northern Asia. In Russia, the Evenks are recognized as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, with a population of 35,527 ....
0.29% • Mordvin 0.25% • Nenets

Nenets people

The Nenets people are an List of indigenous peoples of Russia. According to the latest census in 2002, there are 41,302 Nenets in the Russian Federation, most of them living in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Nenets Autonomous Okrug....
0.21% • Mari

Mari people

The Mari are a Volga Finns people who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama River rivers in Russia. The majority of Maris today live in the Mari El Republic, with significant populations in the Tatarstan and Bashkortostan republics....
0.17% • Khakas

Khakas

The Khakas, or Khakass, are a Turkic people, who live in Russia, in the republic of Khakassia in the southern Siberia. They speak the Khakas language, which belongs to the family of Turkic languages....
0.16% • Estonian

Estonians

Estonians are a Finnic people closely related to the Finns and inhabiting, primarily, the country of Estonia. The Estonians speak a Finno-Ugric languages language, known as Estonian....
0.14% • Kyrgyz

Kyrgyz

The Kyrgyz are a Turkic peoples ethnic group found primarily in Kyrgyzstan....
0.13% • Bashkir

Bashkirs

The Bashkirs, a Turkic people, live in Russia, mostly in the republic of Bashkortostan. Some Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Perm Krai and Chelyabinsk Oblast, Orenburg Oblast, Kurgan Oblast, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Samara Oblast, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia....
0.13% • Moldovan

Moldovans

Moldovans or Moldavians are the native population of the medieval Principality of Moldavia, which nowadays corresponds to 8 north-eastern counties of Romania , the Republic of Moldova, and small parts of Ukraine ....
0.13% • Tajik

Tajiks

Tajik is a general designation for a wide range of mostly Persian language peoples of Iranian peoples, with traditional homelands in present-day Afghanistan, Tajikistan, southern Uzbekistan, north west Pakistan and western China....
0.12% • Udmurt 0.11% • Latvian

Latvians

Latvians , the indigenous Balts people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia....
0.10% • Uzbek

Uzbeks

The Uzbeks are a Turkic peoples people of Central Asia. They comprise the majority population of Uzbekistan, and large populations can also be found in Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China....
0.09% • Kazakh

Kazakhs

The Kazakhs are a Turkic peoples of the northern parts of Central Asia ....
0.09% • Polish

Poles

The Polish people, or Poles , are a West Slavs ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Poles are sometimes defined as people who share a common Polish culture and are of Polish descent....
0.08% • Yakut

Yakuts

Yakuts, self-designation: Sakha, are a Turkic people people associated with the Sakha Republic.The Yakut language belongs to the Northern branch of the Turkic Languages....
0.08% • Lezgin

Lezgins

The Lezgins are an ethnic group, living predominantly in southern Dagestan and north-eastern Azerbaijan, who speak the Lezgian language.In the 19th century, the term was used more broadly for all ethnic groups speaking Northeast Caucasian languages, including Avars, Laks, and many others....
0.07% • Lithuanian

Lithuanians

Lithuanians are the Balts ethnic group native to Lithuania, where they number a little over 3 million people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland....
0.07% • Roma

Roma people

The Romani are an ethnic group of Europe tracing their Origins of the Romani people to middle kingdoms of India.The Romani are Romani diaspora with their largest concentrated populations in Europe, especially the Roma of Central and Eastern Europe, with more recent diaspora populations in the Americas and, to a lesser extent, in other par...
0.07% • Georgian

Georgians

The Georgians are a nation and ethnic group originating in the Caucasus, the oldest group of the South Caucasian peoples people mainly centered in Georgia , but also living in Turkey, Russia, the United States, Iran, and other countries....
0.06% • Jewish 0.06% • Ossetian

Ossetians

The Ossetians are an Iranian peoples ethnic group indigenous peoples to Ossetia, a region that spans the Caucasus Mountains. The Ossetians mostly populate North Ossetia-Alania in Russia, and South Ossetia a large part of which is now de facto independent....
0.06% • Nganasan 0.05% • Tuvan

Tuvans

Tuvans or Tuvinians are a group of Turkic peoples. They are historically known as Uriankhai, from the Mongolian language designation....
0.05% • Ket 0.05% • Korean

Koryo-saram

Koryo-saram is the name which Korean people in the post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves. Approximately 500,000 ethnic Koreans reside in the former Soviet Union, primarily in the now-independent states of Central Asia....
0.04% • Buriat 0.04% • Chechen 0.03% • Greek 0.03% • Latgalian

Latgalians

The term Latgalians can refer to the inhabitants of the Latgale region in eastern Latvia in general, the ethnic Latvians of Latgale , or to the ancient Balts tribe....
0.03%, and many other groups of less than eight hundred persons each.
An additional 0.56% of residents declined to state their nationality on the census questionnaire.

Births (Jan-Nov 2008): 36,904 (12.8 per 1000)
Deaths (Jan-Nov 2008): 39,139 (13.5 per 1000)

Demographics for 2007

Raion Raion A raion is a type of administrative unit of some post-Soviet states. The term, which is of French origin, describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is almost always translated as "district"....	Pop	Births	Deaths	NG	BR	DR	NGR
Krasnoyarsk Krai	2,890,350	34,206	38,470	-4,264	11.83	13.31	-0.15%
Taimirsky Dolgano-Nenetsky	37,768	592	335	257	15.67	8.87	0.68%
Evenkysky	16,705	304	233	71	18.20	13.95	0.43%
Abansky	24,997	346	419	-73	13.84	16.76	-0.29%
Achinsky	15,918	226	253	-27	14.20	15.89	-0.17%
Balakhtinsky	23,761	281	409	-128	11.83	17.21	-0.54%
Berezovsky	38,527	483	543	-60	12.54	14.09	-0.16%
Birilyussky	11,431	159	228	-69	13.91	19.95	-0.60%
Bogotolsky	11,371	151	233	-82	13.28	20.49	-0.72%
Boguchansky	48,312	585	626	-41	12.11	12.96	-0.08%
Bolshemurtinsky	19,292	207	398	-191	10.73	20.63	-0.99%
Bolsheuluisky	8,540	112	157	-45	13.11	18.38	-0.53%
Dzerzhinsky	15,025	180	298	-118	11.98	19.83	-0.79%
Novoselovsky	15,128	192	226	-34	12.69	14.94	-0.22%
Partizansky	11,003	155	233	-78	14.09	21.18	-0.71%
Pirovsky	8,251	97	125	-28	11.76	15.15	-0.34%
Ribinsky	23,393	309	422	-113	13.21	18.04	-0.48%
Sayansky	13,058	163	235	-72	12.48	18.00	-0.55%
Severo-Yeniseisky	10,907	153	136	17	14.03	12.47	0.16%
Sukhobuzimsky	23,050	287	362	-75	12.45	15.70	-0.33%
Taseevsky	13,962	161	234	-73	11.53	16.76	-0.52%
Turukhansky	20,736	249	295	-46	12.01	14.23	-0.22%
Tyukhtetsky	9,034	111	197	-86	12.29	21.81	-0.95%
Uzhursky	33,952	541	586	-45	15.93	17.26	-0.13%
Uyarsky	22,255	250	495	-245	11.23	22.24	-1.10%
Idrinsky	14,037	157	252	-95	11.18	17.95	-0.68%
Ilansky	26,436	352	453	-101	13.32	17.14	-0.38%
Irbeisky	18,053	241	300	-59	13.35	16.62	-0.33%
Kazachinsky	11,333	162	191	-29	14.29	16.85	-0.26%
Sharipovsky	17,816	244	295	-51	13.70	16.56	-0.29%
Shushensky	35,372	392	659	-267	11.08	18.63	-0.75%
Krasnoyarsk	905,000	10,585	10,936	-351	11.70	12.08	-0.04%
Achinsk	110,838	1,333	1,702	-369	12.03	15.36	-0.33%
Bogotol	21,997	273	407	-134	12.41	18.50	-0.61%
Borodino	18,759	197	247	-50	10.50	13.17	-0.27%
Divnogorsk	30,968	337	438	-101	10.88	14.14	-0.33%
Yeniseisk	19,086	265	278	-13	13.88	14.57	-0.07%
Zaozernii	11,359	184	221	-37	16.20	19.46	-0.33%
Kansk	98,965	1,113	1,458	-345	11.25	14.73	-0.35%
Lesosibirsk	64,215	932	1,027	-95	14.51	15.99	-0.15%
Minusinsk	66,770	852	1,141	-289	12.76	17.09	-0.43%
Nazarovo	53,593	568	890	-322	10.60	16.61	-0.60%
Norilsk	206,359	2,402	1,150	1,252	11.64	5.57	0.61%
Sosnovoborsk	30,074	306	275	31	10.17	9.14	0.10%
Sharipovo	38,495	599	583	16	15.56	15.14	0.04%
Yemelyanovsky	45,908	493	633	-140	10.74	13.79	-0.30%
Kansky	26,696	361	425	-64	13.52	15.92	-0.24%
Karatuzsky	16,992	215	307	-92	12.65	18.07	-0.54%
Kezhemsky	24,406	277	300	-23	11.35	12.29	-0.09%
Kozulsky	18,292	225	344	-119	12.30	18.81	-0.65%
Krasnoturansky	16,098	201	247	-46	12.49	15.34	-0.29%
Kuraginsky	51,402	669	851	-182	13.02	16.56	-0.35%
Mansky	17,684	226	365	-139	12.78	20.64	-0.79%
Minusinsky	26,457	339	409	-70	12.81	15.46	-0.26%
Motiginsky	18,152	238	257	-19	13.11	14.16	-0.10%
Nazarovsky	23,609	390	356	34	16.52	15.08	0.14%
Yeniseisky	27,044	353	418	-65	13.05	15.46	-0.24%
Yermakovsky	20,621	310	360	-50	15.03	17.46	-0.24%
Nizhneingashsky	35,886	448	597	-149	12.48	16.64	-0.42%
Other Regions	245,202	1,673	2,020	-347	6.82	8.24	-0.14%

Places of interest

In the krai there are 45 museums, with total number of about one million objects stored there.

The Kranoyrask dam

Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam

The Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam, located on the Yenisey river about upstream from Krasnoyarsk in Divnogorsk, was finished in 1964 and supplies 6000 MW of power, mostly used to supply the KrAZ ....
is pictured on Russian ten-ruble

Ruble

File:Banknote 5000 rubles front.jpgFile:100000 rubles Belarus 2000 obverse.jpgFile:Transnistria rubla 2000.jpgThe ruble or rouble is a unit of currency....
note and is a popular attraction for tourists.

The National Park Stolby with its famous rocks neighbors the city of Krasnoyarsk is a popular travelling area and one of the main centres of rock-climbing in Russia.

Education

Krasnoyarsk is the site of the Siberian Federal University

Siberian Federal University

The Siberian Federal University was created by the decision of the Government of Russia on November 4 2006. The institution integrated 4 large higher education institutions into one 43,000-student university located in the city of Krasnoyarsk....
, one of the four largest educational institutions of Russia.

Nature and ecology

Many important industrial cities of Krasnoyarsk krai, such as Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
, Norilsk

Norilsk

Norilsk is a major types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It was granted city status in 1953. It is the northernmost city in Siberia and the world's second largest city above the Arctic Circle....
, Achinsk

Achinsk

Achinsk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Chulym River near its intersection with the Trans-Siberian Railway, west of Krasnoyarsk....
, Kansk

Kansk

Kansk is a types of inhabited localities in Russia on the left bank of Kan River, Russia in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Population: It is home to Kansk and is crossed by the Trans-Siberian railroad....
, Zheleznogorsk

Zheleznogorsk

Zheleznogorsk may refer to:*Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia*Zheleznogorsk, Kursk Oblast, a town in Kursk Oblast, Russia...
, and Minusinsk

Minusinsk

Minusinsk is a historic types of settlements in Russia in the Krasnoyarsk Krai, Southern Siberia, Russia. Population: 72,561 ; 69,000 ; 44,500 ....
, suffer from environmental pollution.

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Geography

Time zone

History

Politics

Economics

Natural resources

Industry

Power generation

Transportation

Administrative divisions

Demographics

Demographics for 2007

Places of interest

Education

Nature and ecology

External links

See also